Breaking news, left fielder Jurickson Profar was suspended today for 162 games after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). This comes after Profar was suspended for 80 games last year for doing the same thing when he tested positive on March 31st for a banned substance called chorionic gonadotropin.

A naturally produced hormone for women during pregnancy is used to produce testosterone for men. Less than a year later, he is suspended again and his career looks suddenly in peril. What can you say besides you’re a joke? I don’t think I have seen anyone in the majors in the 21st century, after PEDs were officially illegal in MLB, use it the year after being caught and apologizing.

He is done for the entire year and had to forfeit his entire $15 million yearly salary. With this year a loss, he will only have one more year after this in 2027; at that point, it is likely the Braves will just cut him from the team and move on from one of their worst free-agent signings in recent history.

I really do not think any team will take a chance on Profar or should take a chance. If you take a look at his 12-year career in the MLB, he has only been above league average 5 times in a season; two of those times were not full seasons (Braves, 2025) (Padres, 2020).

He has only been worth league average three total times and finally had a breakout season at age 31 with the Padres, and to take PEDs is wild. A career 100 OPS+ had a 136 OPS+ season in 2024 with the Padres; he had 158 hits, 24 home runs, 85 RBIs for a slashline of .280/.380/.439/.839. This is an outlier with his averages.

Important to note, this was a minor league signing that saw Profar break out as the number prospect he was always supposed to be. The Padres picked up Profar from the Rockies when he was released after hitting .236 in 111 games for a negative -1.6 WAR and only managed to hit 8 home runs and 39 RBIs in one of the easiest parks to get hits. After being picked up by the Padres, he batted .295 for 14 games for an OPS+ of 115.

This is the same year that Tatis was finishing up his own PED suspension that he faced in 2022 after he spent the first four months rehabbing a fractured left wrist that happened from a motorcycle accident. He was banned for 80 games in August of 2022 and missed the playoffs after testing positive for Clostebol.

That year, the Padres made it all the way to the NLCS, losing to the pennant-winning champions, the Phillies, who would have wondered what would have happened if the Padres had Tatis on their squad. Something clearly has to be up if the year he came back from a PED suspension is when Profar had his final 15 games with the team; it is questionable, and there has to be some coincidence.

It is strange because how would he have had such an amazing year in 2024 without a little help, and who advocated for Profar to return to the Padres more than Tatis? There is some clear correlation, and if Profar is guilty for two years in a row, not only is he foolish and has lost his whole career, but it makes you think if other people have done it also. Profar, you have a full season to reflect and evaluate how and why you got caught again.